In the last three years our Envato Marketplaces (FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive) have grown like gangbusters, with big communities, huge libraries of files and lots of activity. So when we set out to redesign them earlier this year everyone on the team knew it was going to be big. What we didn’t realise was HOW big it would eventually get! Today it gives me great pleasure to show you …

Thanks to everyone who entered our recent competition to win a copy of Layers or Concentrate. I really enjoyed reading all your entries – you had some very compelling reasons for wanting a free license!

The winners have been chosen, and I’m pleased to announce their details below:

We seem to be on a roll with software giveaways at the moment – both here, and at Web.AppStorm. We’re continuing the momentum today, and have copies of both Layers and Concentrate to give away.

Concentrate is a great application that helps you work and study more productively by eliminating distractions. Our review of Concentrate is a good place to start if you’d like to find out more.

We reviewed Layers a few months ago, and found it to be a well rounded app which reliably delivers on the promise of providing a layered PSD file of your desktop.

We have five licenses of each application to give away. To enter, just leave a comment on this post telling us which you would prefer and why. The competition will run for one week, and we’ll announce the winners on the 23rd September. Good luck!

After a great deal of deliberation, we have decided upon the winners of our desktop wallpaper competition (in conjunction with PSDTuts+). Thank you to everyone who entered. There were so many fantastic entries, choosing only ten winners was incredibly difficult.

We will be posting a huge roundup of over 160 incredible, original wallpapers tomorrow, so be sure to follow Mac AppStorm on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed so you don’t miss out.

The brief was to design an original wallpaper with a theme centred around Apple, AppStorm, or Lightning. We had a fantastic selection of entries – some covering all three of these areas, others covering one or two. The winning wallpapers cover a broad range of styles and techniques.

The best way to make work feel like not work is to do something you enjoy, and do it damn well. That’s why I’m happy to announce the newest Envato blog: WorkAwesome! As you might guess from the name, it’s a site for people who want to be awesome at work. After all, if you’re going to spend eight hours a day doing something, you may as well put some heart into it!

Thank you to everyone who entered last week’s competition to win a copy of VoodooPad or Pathfinder. They’re both great applications in their respective fields, and I’m pleased to announce that the winners have been chosen!

The two lucky VoodooPad winners are:

Wes Crockett

Francisco Queiroga

And the ten recipients of a Pathfinder license are:

Franky

Bruno Moniz

Ivan

Ramon Barrios Lascar

Dani

George Calderon

Il maistro

David F

Maeltj

Lucas Dohmen

We’ll be announcing the winners of our huge wallpaper competition very soon, so be sure to follow us on Twitter or subscribe to the RSS feed to find out if you’re a winner!